One Good Thing

One Good Thing

Avocado Checkers Are Good (and Cool)

Don't squeeze, scan.

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E.J.
Sep 11, 2025
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I know what you may be thinking. “Avocados? Really?”

We have covered breakthroughs in geothermal energy, medicine and desalinization, and now avocados??!?!?

Not all good things are created equal, but avocados and facilitating finding the ripe ones is a good thing! For society. For diets. For making life easier.

So. Read on. It’s a good read and a good thing.

Avocados have become a global sensation, but their popularity comes with a frustrating secret: the ripeness window. It’s a fleeting, almost mythical thing. We've all been there,”is this softness the right softness?” Softly and firmly squeezing the fruit, hoping when you get home it’s neither mushy nor discolored.

And everybody feels. And then guess what happens? The avocados end up bruised because dozens of people handled them.

If only there was a way to definitively evaluate where the avocado in your hand stands on the ripeness spectrum! Don’t look now, but the solution may lie in a technological innovation that looks to bring a consistently perfect avocado to your home, to your plate, to your toast. Ever single time.

To discover more, read on.

Tesco A man in a blue shirt holds an avocado to one of Tesco's new avocado scanners, the machine glows green and a screen reads 'ripe and ready to eat'
Behold today’s Good Thing. The Avocado Scanner! Photo Courtesy of TESCO
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